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1683

Overview

Willard L. Rodgers is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant concentration in education, safety research, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work spans various topics including disability education and employment, collaborative teaching and inclusion, family and disability support research, teacher education and leadership studies, parental involvement in education, behavioral and psychological studies, and education discipline and inequality.

Rodgers has contributed to numerous publications in several academic journals. Recent papers include:

  • Disparities in Teachers' Access to Schools' Collective Social Assets Based on Role, Race, and Poverty (2022), published in Remedial and Special Education
  • Defining Specially Designed Instruction: A Systematic Literature Review (2021), published in Learning Disabilities Research and Practice
  • Intersectionality in Inclusive Science Classrooms: Enhancing Student Performance via Multimedia Teacher Professional Development (2022), published in Journal of Special Education Technology
  • Observation Studies in Special Education: A Synthesis of Validity Evidence for Observation Systems (2021), published in Review of Educational Research
  • Enhancing science performance of middle-school students with and without developmental and behavioral-based disabilities using the Content Acquisition Podcast Professional Development approach (2022), published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Rodgers frequently collaborates with several coauthors including Margaret P. Weiss, Hannah Morris Mathews, John Elwood Romig, Elizabeth Bettini, and Victoria J. VanUitert. These collaborations have contributed to multidisciplinary work spanning education and psychological studies.

Their publications appear in respected venues such as Remedial and Special Education, Journal of Special Education Technology, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Review of Educational Research.

Best Publications

  • The Quality of American Life: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Satisfactions

    Angus Campbell;Philip E. Converse;Willard L. Rodgers

  • Prevalence of dementia in the United States: the aging, demographics, and memory study.

    Brenda L Plassman;Kenneth M Langa;Gwenith G Fisher;Steven G Heeringa

  • Prevalence of cognitive impairment without dementia in the United States.

    Brenda L. Plassman;Kenneth M. Langa;Gwenith G. Fisher;Steven G. Heeringa

  • The Sense of Well-Being: Developing Measures. (Book Reviews: The Quality of American Life. Perceptions, Evaluations, and Satisfactions)

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  • Evidence on the Validity of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Data

    John Bound;Charles Brown;Greg J. Duncan;Willard L. Rodgers

  • The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: study design and methods.

    Kenneth M. Langa;Brenda L. Plassman;Robert B. Wallace;A. Regula Herzog

  • Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old: An Overview of the AHEAD Study

    Beth J. Soldo;Michael D. Hurd;Willard L. Rodgers;Robert B. Wallace

  • ESTIMABLE FUNCTIONS OF AGE, PERIOD, AND COHORT EFFECTS*

    Willard L. Rodgers

  • Psychosocial Mediation of Religious Coping Styles: A Study of Short-Term Psychological Distress Following Cardiac Surgery

    Amy L. Ai;Crystal L. Park;Bu Huang;Willard Rodgers

  • Prevalence of Dementia in the United States

    Brenda L. Plassman;Kenneth M. Langa;Gwenith G. Fisher;Steven G. Heeringa

  • Has Children's Poverty Become More Persistent?.

    Greg J. Duncan;Willard Rodgers

  • Cohorts, Chronology, and Collective Memories

    Howard Schuman;Willard L. Rodgers

  • A Comparative Analysis of ADL Questions in Surveys of Older People

    Willard Rodgers;Baila Miller

  • An Evaluation of Statistical Matching

    Willard L. Rodgers

  • Errors in Survey Reports of Earnings, Hours Worked, and Hourly Wages

    Willard L. Rodgers;Charles Brown;Greg J. Duncan

  • Age and Satisfaction: Data from Several Large Surveys.

    A. Regula Herzog;Willard L. Rodgers

  • Longitudinal Aspects of Childhood Poverty

    Greg J. Duncan;Willard L. Rodgers

  • The influence of individual and historical time on marital dissolution

    Arland Thornton;Willard L. Rodgers

  • Measurement Error In Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Surveys: Results From Two Validation Studies

    John Bound;Charles Brown;Greg J. Duncan;Willard L. Rodgers

  • Depression, faith-based coping, and short-term postoperative global functioning in adult and older patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

    Amy L. Ai;Amy L. Ai;Christopher Peterson;Steven F. Bolling;Willard Rodgers

  • The Quality of American Life: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Satisfactions.

    Andrew A. Beveridge;Angus Campbell;Philip E. Converse;Willard L. Rodgers

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Amy L. Ai
Amy L. Ai Florida State University
Lynn T. Singer
Lynn T. Singer Case Western Reserve University
Gwenith G. Fisher
Gwenith G. Fisher Colorado State University
Guy G. Potter
Guy G. Potter Duke University
Steven G. Heeringa
Steven G. Heeringa University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James R. Burke
James R. Burke Duke University
David A. Bennett
David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center
Paul Rozin
Paul Rozin University of Pennsylvania
Julie A. Schneider
Julie A. Schneider Rush University Medical Center

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